US Patent Issued to Deere &Company on May 13 for "Predictive machine setting map generation and control system" (Illinois, Iowa Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,288, issued on May 13, was assigned to Deere &Co. (Moline, Ill.).

"Predictive machine setting map generation and control system" was invented by Nathan R. Vandike (Geneseo, Ill.), Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla (Bettendorf, Iowa), Duane M. Bomleny (Geneseo, Ill.), Nathan E. Krehbiel (Bettendorf, Iowa) and Troy M Heims (Davenport, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information map is obtained by an agricultural system. The information map maps values of a characteristic to different geographic locations in a field. An in-situ sensor detects machine setting values as a mobile machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator gen...